At Least She Knows that Bono is the King of Ireland!

Here's the next episode in the Palin SNL saga!




"We're going to fight terror-loving terrorists!!!"

I'm a PC and I Make Terrible, Incomprehensible Commercials

Microsoft has a new round of "Apple Killer" commercials out. "I'm a PC and I'm a human being. Not a human dreaming, not a human thinking, a human being." Whatever. Look, make a better product and you won't be so easy to make fun of.

I'm a human being and I bought a Mac, btw. Here's a good article on it.

Yes, The J Published it First

But if I paid any attention whatsoever to Lokiec's IM spams at work, it would have been up on my blog first. Enjoy, the first of many (I hope) Palin vs Clinton SNL skits.

File This Under "Sign Me Up"

This is just about the coolest damn thing I've ever seen, and I'm not ashamed to say that my inner nerd is shining through. Note: I first found this on Geekologie, but thought I'd go right to the source for quotes and links.

See the Amazing Tattoo Phone!

Her cell phone is ringing, but the display is turned off. She lightly pushes a small dot on the skin on her left forearm to suddenly reveal a two by four inch tattoo with the image of the cell phone's digital display, directly in the skin of her arm. She answers the call by pushing a tattooed button on her arm. While she's talking, the tattoo comes to life as a digital video of the caller. When she finishes, the tattoo disappears.

Oh Metallica, Give Up and Retire

Metallica dropped a new album this week, Live From the Rocking Chair. It features a collaboration track with Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. Britney is opening for them. Oh wait, maybe I'm thinking of Madonna's death knell, Hard Candy. Whatever, same difference.

Just kidding, it's called Death Magnetic, which I can only take to mean that, at their advanced old age, they're distinctly feeling death's magnetic pull.

I first suspected that Metallica was headed downhill when I read a story about them years ago wanting to work with Bob Rock because they thought the beginning of Motley Crue's Dr. Feelgood rocked so hard. What? Metallica aspires to be glam? Come on, now. Then came And Justice For All. I am probably the only Metallica fan in the world who saw this album as the beginning of the end. Overproduced, electronic, too precise...I stopped listening to Metallica when Lars Ulrich pitched his little Napster hissy fit. It's not that I don't believe that artists have a right to dollars for their music, it's that a band that owes its fame to bootlegged music shouldn't be all uppity about it when their fans expect to still be bootlegging their music...still, they were Metallica, for God's sake...until they went to marriage counseling as a group to learn to hold hands and get along. That was it. If I want to hold hands and sing, I'll join the freakin' Girl Scouts.

Also, it's not cool when a band I listened to in high school is still putting out music for my kid to buy when he's in high school. That's just weird (unless your name is Madonna). Anyway, I'm not buying it. Because it's lame. So there.

One Decent Nojito Recipe

Lokiec, Marcia and I went to 99 last week, and had the Oh No Mojito, which is, as you may have guessed, an non-alcoholic Mojito. It was awesome. It put me on the search for a comparable recipe. I found one, went out and got the mint leaves, crushed the ice, made the sugar syrup, and combined...and the result was repulsive. It's like lime juice mixed with mint.

So, I'm on the lookout for a decent Nojito recipe. My only qualifications are that 1) you've actually made it before and can vouch for it and, 2) you know what a Nojito is supposed to taste like (as in, your home brewed recipe isn't the only Nojito you've ever had).

I hate 12 episode seasons

We just finished Season 2 of Dexter on DVD. I love Dexter, book and TV show (although the books are a little silly -- but they're never boring). What I don't like is that, like many pay-station shows, the season was only 12 episodes long...too short.

In unrelated news, I plan to stop watching CSI after Grissom leaves. No offense to Morpheus, but CSI is no Law & Order. I read on MSNBC that CSI was betting they were more Law & Order than X-Files in their lead investigator changes, but no Grisson = no CSI. Unless they bring Liev Shreiber's character back from the dead...

Wow, Joshua Jackson

I never watched Dawson's Creek because...whatever, it was boring. And I never understood the Pacey phenomenon. But watching Fringe (which is very X-Files, but filmed more like Alias), I can't help but think, wow, he grew up hot.

Oh, and the show is pretty good, too, despite the bad reviews it's getting. Silly in a talking-to-a-guy-in-a-coma-a la-Cell-immersed-in-a-tub-of-water-without-any-clothes-while-dropping-acid kind of way. Funny dialogue. I like it, so it'll probably be cancelled, but it would be nice to have something to watch on Tuesdays.

"I have used this technique to extract information from a corpse once," says Dr. CrazyPants. "You can do that if they haven't been dead for longer than six hours."
"Right, 'cause after six hours, that's when they're really dead," answers Pacey.

ANTM: Cycle Eleven

Last night, the one billionth season of America's Next Top Model kicked off. I can tell you already that it's suffering from the same illness that's suffocating Project Runway this season -- faux big personalities. Both shows are filled with would-be Flava Flav wannabes (not literally). For example, instead of Christian V Siriano, this season we have blue mohawked Suede, who talks about himself in the third person constantly, and grow-up-to-be-saddle-bag-leatha-face Blayne, who has no talent.

But enough about Project Runway, which is still my favorite show, let's talk about ANTM, my second favorite show. Yes! Let's! This season I like Isis (what's not to like? She has snaggle teeth and a penis, two qualities I look for in a women's modeling competition). She's one of about three contestants with talent. Look for Isis, Marjorie, and Britney to go far. The first cut was judicious - well done ;) Lokiec, stay tuned here for many, many updates!!

In a World Without Our Favorite Trailer Voice Guy...

Say it ain't so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, Don LaFontaine, voice of ten thousand movie trailers, you will be missed. And not just because we enjoyed your Geico commercial.